I'm a Libertarian living in Humboldt County, CA. I've lived here in Eureka since 1973 and joined the Libertarian Party in 1992. This blog will mostly focus on local political issues, but I may stray into state and national issues as well, when I can't help myself. Please post your comments by clicking on the "comments" link at the bottom of each post. Although I do moderate comments, you need not be a registered user to post them.

Monday, October 30, 2006

Driscoll: We Can End Daylight Savings

The Times- Standard's, John Driscoll, seems to have had enough of Daylight Savings Time. He suggests Humboldt County lead the revolution against it.

Myself? As I said yesterday, I'm not sure that it's isn't more trouble than it's worth. I wasn't sure how I'd feel about it this time as my attitude changes year by year.

I was looking forward to having the sun come up "earlier" but found, to some amusement yesterday, when it started getting lighter seemingly an hour earlier, I wanted it to stay dark longer. I like hiding in the darkness playing on my computer. Like I said, I can't do anything else until the sun comes up anyway.

As far as the sun going down earlier, I knew I probably wouldn't be happy about that. Yesterday, though, I didn't even notice when the sun went down.

So John, here's what we'll do: You set your clock back to where it was before Daylight Savings Time ended. Give that a try for a few months and get back to us. We'll see how it worked out for you. If it looks like a good deal, maybe the rest of us will follow suit and we'll have a revolution on our hands.

If we did away with daylight savings, we would be where we are now, with the sun going down "sooner" rather than later. Driscoll has it backwards. We are now on Standard Time. Daylight savings ended Sunday.

Right, but Driscoll complains that in the holiday season of eating and drinking is a bad time to take away evening light.

So if we did away with Daylight Savings, nothing would change in the holiday season.

Incidentally, Daylight Savings will be extended by almost two months next year. It will start in March (rather than April) and end in November. So the kids will have more light for Halloween, but I don't think that's the holiday Driscoll is talking about.

This whole debate is silly stuff. It doesn't make any difference. Obviously changing the clock does nothing to affect the sun. duh Schools and/or businesses that want to start in winter daylight should adjust their starting time accordingly. Let's stick to important things (like politics???)